Deputies investigate UFOs near Jeffrey Lake  by Frank Graham (North Platte Bulletin) - 12/11/2008

Two deputies investigated the sighting of unidentified flying objects in the sky south of Brady Nov. 21, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer.

Although both deputies and the man who called to report the lights dancing in the sky observed them for more than 15 minutes, they could offer no explanation about what they were.

"One deputy, who has an extensive amount of military experience and has witnessed a lot of military maneuvers first hand, said he’d never seen anything like them," Kramer said. "They could not explain what they were."

A man who lives near Jeffrey Lake reported the lights in the sky to the 911 Center about 7:30 Nov. 21, according to an LCSO report. A dispatcher reported the call to on-duty deputies, who responded to the call.

Kramer said both deputies observed the lights first hand.

"The report says they first observed a blue light with a red tail fall out of the sky toward a field," Kramer said. "It stayed stationary for a short time then disappeared."

Kramer said the deputies observed lights that appeared to hover then take off in one direction or another. He said the deputies reported that they never saw more than three lights together at one time and that there was no sound coming from them.

Kramer said the deputies reported that the lights were "too fast to be helicopters and too agile to be jet aircraft."

The lights were reported to be blue and white, according to Kramer.

The deputies also reported that one of the lights would occasionally drop directly down toward the earth and then suddenly rise up again into the sky.

The deputies observed the lights in the southern sky for about 15 minutes before they suddenly darted off and disappeared.

Kramer said one deputy managed to get a picture of the lights shot with a digital camera through his night vision goggles but that the pictures didn’t offer much evidence as they were too grainy and the lights appeared so small.

The man who reported the lights said he often watched military helicopters on maneuvers in the canyons during the summer but said it was nothing like the lights Nov. 21.

Others at Lake Maloney also reported seeing the unidentified lights in the eastern sky.

Dispatchers checked with Denver International Airport, which covers radar for this area, but they said the radar only monitored activity at 14,000 feet and above.

The deputies reported the lights were much lower than that in the sky.

Mike Sharkey, manager of the North Platte Regional Airport, said the dispatchers called him at home to see if he could shed any light on the mysterious lights but he said that Lee Bird Field has no radar and could offer no further information.

A spokesman for the National Weather Service office in North Platte said their radar rarely picks up any aircraft or UFOs. He said no one noticed anything unusual on their radar Nov. 21.

Kramer said he too could offer no explanation for the mysterious lights.

UFOs sighted over area for more than 53 years

Only one in 450 UFO sightings are ever reported, according to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle Wash.

On any particular evening in the United States there are around 1,000 sightings of UFOs around the USA, including 100 close encounters with objects, 80 encounters with humanoids, and 15 reported abductions.

In the U.S. there are now living around one million people who believe they have seen saucer occupants, and over 150,000 who believe they have been abducted.

There have been 252 UFO sightings reported in Nebraska, according to NUFORC.

NUFORC was founded in 1974 by noted UFO investigator Robert J. Gribble. The Center's primary function over the past two decades has been to receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have been witness to unusual, possibly UFO-related events.

The center operates a telephone hotline that has operated almost continuously since 1974 and has processed more than 10,000 calls. Reports can also be filed on the center’s website.

The U.S. government took an interest in UFOs from 1947 to 1967 and the U.S. Air Force used its substantial base network to take reports and write them up in standardized formats. During this period there were also substantial report libraries accumulated by the private NICAP and AFPRO organizations in the United States, the researcher Jacques Vallee, and other private organizations in Canada, Europe and Australia.

The official Condon Study of 1969 ended the U.S. government program of taking reports. Researchers at the private CUFOS group managed to acquire the final government-sponsored report database on mainframe data tapes.

It is from this data and other reports that we can report West Central Nebraska area UFO sightings:

• McPherson County - In April 1916 and again in August 1917, a flying disk was observed and reported by residents.

• North Platte, Aug. 23, 1955 – A woman reported that she had a close encounter with an unidentified craft and its occupants.

• Rural West Central Nebraska, Jan. 1, 1953 – A woman told her child, who was only 4-years old the night the incident happened, that they were traveling by car when a light came from the sky and lit up the area so bright that she could see every blade of grass if it were daylight. She told her daughter that the car stopped and they just sat there. She said she didn’t know how long but that the light left and she started the car again and drove them home. She remembered the incident and all the details at age 82.

• North Platte, April 25, 1964 – A meteor-like object was reported by numerous people. It was later determined to be an actual meteor.

• North Platte, June 17, 1978 – Numerous witnesses reported an object hovering in the sky for more than one hour at approximately 11 p.m. The witnesses made numerous police reports about the encounter.

• North Platte, Aug. 25, 1979 – Two friends were star gazing at 10:30 p.m. when one suddenly saw an object flying through the northern Milky Way. He reported it was nearly 60,000 feet in altitude and traveling due south. He said the object was dark with jagged edges and appeared to be the size of three football fields. Two other similarly shaped objects were traveling in a split formation behind the lead craft and four more followed those, the report said. All were traveling extremely fast. They bolted from the far northern view of the Milky to the south under 10 seconds. The friend pointed them out to his buddy who then saw them too. The report said they could distinguish them as separate because they could see the stars between objects.

• North Platte, July 17, 1980 – Two people who were attending a party at the skating rink were walking home a little after 10 p.m. and looked up about 30 degrees at the corner of Custer Avenue and West 13th Street. They reported spotting several rock-shaped objects with jagged edges flying across the sky. The objects went north to south and passed overhead silently, the report said. The pair watched the objects for about eight seconds until they vanished into a puffy white cloud. The report said one of the boys went home and told his parents what he saw but they were not the least but interested because they were watching Ronald Reagan giving his acceptance speech for nomination of the Republican Party for President that Thursday evening, which also happened to be the boy’s fathers birth date. He said he highly doubted anyone believed his story because he was only fourteen years old when it happened.

• North Platte, Oct. 19, 1981 – Objects were tracked by radar and sighted visually. Three multi-colored discs were observed by five witnesses.

• Sutherland, Nov. 15, 1983 – A Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy was on patrol in the Sutherland area when he found some kids drinking beer. As the kids were dumping the beer at the deputy’s direction, one of them yelled, "Hey, what is that?" The deputy reported he looked toward the northwest and observed a craft floating above the ground. He reported the dark metallic craft was about 2,000 feet above the ground and about 1,200 feet away from him. He said the craft was moving slowly toward the south. The deputy reported the craft had rows of square objects that looked like windows but were dark. The deputy watched the craft move to the south and over the Village of Sutherland. He reported he called another deputy in the Wallace area and asked him to start heading north and see if he could catch it. Just then, the deputy said, three circles at the rear of the craft flashed a bright white and the craft sped up in the direction of the Gerald Gentleman Power Plant then veered to the southeast. The second deputy then reported he could see the craft and estimated it was going about 400 miles per hour towards Dickens. The craft was reported to be as long as a C5 Galaxy aircraft and twice as wide. He observed it for an estimated 15 minutes. He said he and the teens all felt the hair on their arms and legs stand up when they saw it.

• Maxwell, Nov. 15, 1984 – The man who reported this UFO said he was driving east down Hwy. 30 toward Maxwell taking a friend home at 6 p.m. on a cold, misty, rainy day. He said he did not like driving on that road as the trains on the track perpendicular to the road often had their front lights on bright. The man said he saw a light that he first thought was a train but quickly realized it was twice as high as it should have been. He said he and his friend went silent as they got closer and observed the light was coming from a football shaped craft floating above the railroad tracks. The light was on the front of the craft was pointing straight ahead and there was another he said he could not see at first pointing directly down onto the tracks. It also had several small colored lights at different areas on it. They stopped the car and got out, walking towards the craft as it approached. The passenger got back in the car and yelled for the driver to get in and drive off. But the driver stayed outside and observed the craft as it passed. He said there was no sound coming from the craft and it just glided over the tracks. They watched as it passed by and disappeared from sight into the mist. The man reported that he and his friend never could make sense of what they saw. He said the sighting took about five minutes but after dropping his friend off and driving back home, he learned he had been gone six hours. They reported the sighting to the Nebraska State Patrol.

• Gothenburg, July 15, 1996 – A man reported that he saw a red round flashing light similar to a taillight on an old car cross the night sky from the west horizon to the east horizon five to 10 times faster than any jet he had ever seen. He said it went from horizon to horizon in about 30 to 45 seconds and made absolutely no sound. The object was observed at 11:30 p.m. The same object was reportedly reported to a Denver radio station.

• Cozad, Sept. 18, 1998 – A licensed practical nurse reported a triangular shaped object, whose margins were unspecific, at 1:45 a.m. The night was clear and the star field exceptionally sharp. The trajectory was from north to south and there were no visible lights. "I am a trained observer by profession," the nurse wrote in the report.

• Ogallala, July 22, 2000 – Three friends reported an enormous craft with multi-illuminated panels giving off shapes and colors "unlike anything they had ever seen." They reported it rose on the western horizon and traveled to the eastern horizon. They observed it for about 25 minutes.

• Mullen, Nov. 19, 2002 – A couple reported that they observed brilliant lights moving at incredible speeds and doing strange maneuvers for four nights in a row. They reported that they got scared and observed the lights appearing to follow them until they reached town then shoot straight up into the sky about 11 p.m. They observed them for several hours one night and even videotaped the event.

• North Platte, Oct. 17, 2003 – A woman reported that he observed an aircraft apparently chasing a formation of yellowish and orange lights quite a bit bigger than the aircraft. The eastbound formation of lights accelerated and left the aircraft far behind, according to the woman. She observed the chase for about three minutes, she reported.

• Sutherland, July 26, 2004 – A man was cutting cross-country from Tryon and was on his way to Sutherland at 11:40 p.m. when he observed a needle nosed, triangular-shaped object in the sky. It appeared to be hovering halfway between Sutherland and Hershey. It soon began moving to the south very slowly. "I would say the object was about 300 yards long and 100 wide at the triangular front end. I continued to the south until I came onto the two-mile road north of Sutherland and turned to the east. I stopped and got out to get a better look. I heard a low-pitched hum, which seemed to be coming from the object which was heading south towards I-80 and Hwy. 30. It seemed to be moving about 3-5 miles per hour at about 1,000-foot altitude or so. It seemed to me it was about a mile or two away to the east. I watched this object for several minutes until it disappeared to the south and the lights of the rest area on I-80 interfered. I came on home and reported what I saw." He reported that he observed the craft for 25 minutes.

• Hershey, Dec. 3, 2004 – A man was driving on Hwy. 30 when he noticed lights in the sky just south of the highway and east of Hershey. It appeared to be a rectangle that spun slowly counter clockwise and took about 10 seconds to make a complete revolution. It was drifting west. Suddenly, the rotation stopped and the craft began moving directly to the north. "At this point I had pulled off to the side of the road and got out of my truck. The lights were shaped in a Trapezoid formation with a spot light in the center that would come on intermittently. What ever this craft was it did not make the sounds that a helicopter makes. The only thing I heard was a low continued whooshing sound heavy on the osh part. I stood there for about four minutes watching this object light up the country side with a bright white circle until it was about a mile or so north then the craft shot straight up and out of site. The whole time I watched this craft it was about 700 feet above the ground and I also saw the normal passenger jet aircraft in the sky but they were traveling at their normal altitudes – 20,000 feet or so."

• North Platte, June 29, 2007 – A man reported that as he walked toward his pickup truck, he looked up in the sky and saw three very bright lights moving in a triangular shape at 11:30 p.m. He reported the triangle moved to the north slowly. He said he then observed a fast moving plane fly under the lighted triangle. The UFO then shot straight up and disappeared, the man reported.

• Hershey, Nov. 2, 2007 – A man reported that he was walking to his truck when he looked into the sky and noticed an airplane flying from west to east. He said then he noticed a very bright light in the sky further "toward Zenith" from the plane. He said he quickly checked the Constellations to orient himself. He reported the light four times the size of Venus. He observed it for about 20 seconds when its intensity began dissipating. He said he could see a round ball in the center of the light. He said he went back into his house, saw it was 10:34 p.m. and filed his report.

UFO’s in Nebraska? You better believe it.

Omaha City Weekly  By: Jim Delmont  Issue: Feb 25, 2009

Nebraska man recalls over 3,000 abductions by Patricia Ress

John Foster is a soft-spoken down home kind of man who would make you think of a young Joel McCrea. He is both an engineer and abductee and his contact experiences began  back in 1950 while he was in grade school. While he and his classmates at Bethany Grade School in Lincoln, NE were outside watching a movie, Foster recalled seeing an object resembling a helicopter with swirling lights appearing out of the sky. He remembered being fascinated yet feeling strange. When he looked around, everyone seemed frozen in time-looking like statues. Then he saw three little men appear and try to fix the craft which by then had landed. He had an overwhelming desire to get inside, and when he did, it was something totally different than he had seen from the outside.

Foster was then taken to an examining room by creatures that resembled frogs or lizards. One he somehow knew was a female and she told him that they were the educators who would supervise his learning experiences. Among other strange things, Foster recalled that they encouraged him to join Masonic Lodge. After being examined, Foster was sent back out of the craft to the crowd below. Another female spoke to him in a scolding tone and told him he was to be a good boy and mind his parents. She seemed to know a lot about him including the fact that he and some other boys had stolen some candy and gum from a store across the street.

For over 30 years, Foster seemed to have forgotten about his abductions until in October of 1986 when he went camping with his wife and children at Niobrara Park where he had a short visitation which awakened more memories of previous abductions. By December he had recalled at least 50 such experiences and by January that number had grown to about 3,000! When he was later introduced to a larger group of contactees, he remembered all of them from previous abductions. "Alien abduction is a terrifying and traumatic experience," Foster declared."Psychiatric counselors don't know how to deal with this-even if you can get them to believe you.I believe that UFO experiences are directed at you personally. But there are also times when they can address the population in general."

Foster said that profound things happened to him during his abductions and that the world should know about them. He said he was shown how the 'visitors' can manipulate atomic structure and change things directly at will. He was told things about scientific matters over the years that he saw come to fruition. While the entities he initially encountered looked reptilian, the spiritual guides were more human in appearance and able to phase in and out at the deeper levels. On the initial level of the abduction experience there is a kind of excitement while on the deeper level life plans emerge and there is an interaction with people who have had similar experiences.

While some people have little or no proof of who or what abducted them, Foster has carefully documented his experiences with drawings and paintings and believes he has encountered at least 13 different kinds of crafts. Some are described as 'bells' and others as 'floating telephone booths.' One frightening aspect of his experiences was that when he told the aliens he could not recall all of his abductions,they told him that if he remembered them, it would negate their purpose. Foster has been helped with the trauma of his abductions by Dr. Leo Sprinkle of the U. of Wyoming who works with abductees.

The aliens told Foster that they were a "guardian brotherhood" who had watched over mankind since antiquity. He was told he was to awaken people to the reality of other dimensions and to interact with them. When he and his wife visited several Indian reservations, he showed his drawings to them and they commented "we see things like this all the time."  

The 1884 Nebraska Crash

On June 6, 1884, as a band of cowboys rounded up cattle in remote Dundy County, Nebraska, a blazing object streaked out of the sky and crashed some distance from them, leaving (according to a contemporary newspaper account) "fragments of cog-wheels and other pieces of machinery . . . glowing with heat so intense as to scorch the grass for a long distance around each fragment." The light was so intense that it blinded one of the witnesses.

This incredible event was recorded two days later in Lincoln's Daily State Journal, which printed a dispatch from Benkelman, Nebraska, by an anonymous correspondent. The correspondent wrote that prominent local citizens had gone to the site, where the metal now had cooled. He reported, "The aerolite, or whatever it is, seems to be about 50 or 60 feet long, cylindrical, and about 10 or 12 feet in diameter." A State Journal editor remarked that this must have been an "air vessel belonging originally to some other planet."

Nebraska may have had its own Roswell in 1884

Very few people have heard of Max, Neb. A cursory look at the Google Map of the town shows just how small it is - under 20 blocks, a blip in southwest Nebraska. It's just eight miles from the seat of Dundy County: Benkelman, population 914.

But Max, the blip it may be, is the closest town to an incident in that occurred 1884.

The Nebraska Nugget reported, "About 35 miles northwest of Benkelman, Dundy County, on the 6th of June (1884) a very startling phenomenon occurred. It seems that John W. Ellis and three of his herdsmen and a number of other cowboys were out engaged in a roundup. They were startled by a terrific whirring noise over their heads, and turning their eyes saw a blazing body falling like a shot to Earth. It struck beyond them, being hidden from view by a bank."

One of the herdsmen, Alf Williamson, was burned as he approached the craft, which had created a split in the ground as it dragged to a stop. He was taken back to Ellis' home and treated for his burns.

E.W. Rawlins, the brand inspector for the district, came to inspect it.

The Nebraska State Journal reported on the event in 1887, saying, "One piece that looked like the blade of a propeller screw, of a metal of an appearance like brass, about 16 inches wide, three inches thick and three-and-a-half feet long, was picked up by a spade. It would not weigh more than five pounds, but appeared as strong and compact as any known metal. A fragment of a wheel with a milled rim, apparently having had a diameter of seven or eight feet, was also picked up. It seemed to be of the same material and had the same remarkable lightness."

The lack of physical evidence means there's nothing much left today, and John Buder, a field researcher with the Mutual UFO Network of Nebraska, said that the people of Dundy County shy away from talking about the event.

Most of his investigation into it has been research. He first stumbled across the story in a tourist's guide to Nebraska. From there, he's found it in multiple books on the subject.

"There has been a lot of studies made on UFO crashes," Buder said. "The people who I

would claim know the most have not identified it as a hoax."

It was the second UFO crash Buder knows of, and the first to be recorded in newspapers of the time. But once the story came out, it started a worldwide wave of similar stories - some more reputable than others.

One such case is the 1897 crash near Aurora, Tex., where four alien bodies are supposedly buried in a graveyard. Eyder Peralta, a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, investigated that crash and turned up nothing.

But the Nebraska crash is the first reported. It was only after the incident near Max that it became a sort of mythology.

"That means that all these other hoax crashes that started seem to have gotten their start at Max, Neb.," Buder said.

It's a piece of Nebraska history only occasionally touched on, Roswell before there was a Roswell to speak of.

"I'd say right now there's only a few dozen people

in Nebraska who even know about it," Buder said.

But how does a craft just disappear, just dissolve in a crash? What about the "cogs" that the craft threw off as it approached the ground? Did those, too, simply disappear?

It's a legend taken more seriously than most of the era in ufology circles, which is not to say there aren't skeptics. Alan Boye even wrote in his recent book, "The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska," that "there are, of course, many people who do not believe the story, and others who claim it is yet another UFO story neglected and laughed at by skeptics."

But skeptical or not, Buder asserts that it was the beginning of the wave of stories, ground zero for what would turn into airship sightings as time went on.

He sees the building of the railroad coinciding with the sightings of the era. In fact, the crafts were often described as "railroad engines without wheels" at the time.

"It's ironic that this same story, this being the first, was repeated many more times worldwide at later dates," Buder said.

And as for the remnants, Buder thinks there might be some things tucked away in the Republican River valley.

"I wouldn't doubt that out there in one of those tool sheds or barns out there, there's a piece of metal that no one knows where it came from," he said.

March 29,1897- Omaha, NE

Witnessed from almost every corner of the city, a large, spherical object crossed over the skies of Omaha. The craft glowed evenly as it passed behind the bluffs to the northwest of the city. "It was in the shape of a big bright light, too big for a balloon," a newspaper account read.

February 2, 1922 Hubbell, NE

Out on a hunting trip, Mr. William C. Lamb came across strange tracks in the forest floor. He followed them, and soon discovered a flying disc, hovering at treetop level, right above him. It emitted a piercingly high whine. Mr. Lamb ducked behind some brush and let the object pass. After the craft had left, and Mr. Lamb felt he was safe, a flying creature about eight feet tall alighted on the snow. It searched the area, and passed by Mr. Lamb who thereafter followed the creature for five miles before losing track.

September 8, 1958 - Omaha, NE

1. UFO first appeared as vapor streak, bright flare of light. Then turned red-orange, solid shape
became distinct. Black specks appeared, cavorted, near lower end.

2. Specks disappeared, object tilted to 45 degrees from horizontal, began moving slowly WSW.

3. Object tipped to horizontal, then as it moved into distance tilted upwards again.

SAC Officers Watch UFO With Satellite Objects

At SAC headquarters in 1958, a group of officers, airmen and missile engineers observed an elongated UFO with satellite objects for about 20 minutes. The case was reported to NICAP by Major Paul A. Duich, USAF (Ret.), one of the witnesses, who was then on active duty. Until recently, Major Duich was an Air Force Master Navigator, accumulating 4000 flying hours and 300 combat hours. During World War II he was one of those who saw "foo-fighters," while crew member of a B-29 making bomb runs on Japan.

The time was approximately 1840. The date: 8 September 1958. I had just ordered dinner at the Officers Club, Strategic Air Command Headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska. I excused myself from my friend and co-worker, Major __________ , and went out the side door to cross the open space between the club and the Visiting Officers Quarters next door. I wanted to buy a newspaper in the lobby of the VOQ to read after dinner.

As I crossed the open area, something caught my eye. Glancing up and to the west, I noticed what appeared to be a short vapor trail in an otherwise clear, blue sky. There were no clouds. The sun had just set. I continued walking but somehow that vapor trail didn't register properly. I have seen thousands of vapor trails but this one was peculiar. I did a double take at that point for suddenly the short 'vapor trail' became a brilliant Source of light, much the same as a magnesium flare. I stopped dead in my tracks and watched.

The light was intense, but the "vapor trail" hung motionless. Even a short trail shows generation and dissipation as the aircraft moves across the sky. I watched for several minutes-- maybe 2 or 3--before I called to another officer: "Hey, what do you make of that?", pointing to the spot in the sky. He replied, "Looks like a short vapor trail." I pointed out that it wasn't moving or growing or diminishing in size. He stopped to gape and several others joined us.

By then, I decided this called for a better look. What we all agreed, rather quickly, was that the vapor was reflecting sunlight, the effect being similar to a sun-dog, even though the sun had already slipped below the horizon.

As the small crowd gathered, I hurried into the VOQ office and called the Offutt tower. I asked the tower operator to look west, about 30 degrees from the horizontal and tell me what he saw.

"Looks like a short vapor trail. Very odd."

"Vapor trail my foot! Look at it now."

I could see it through the window as I talked to the tower operator. The glow was now diminishing and changing to a dull red-orange and at the same time the fuzzy appearance gradually took on a solid look, in the distinct shape of a pencil or slender cigar. The upper end was blunter than the lower end.

By then all those in the office were curious and we all stepped outside to join the 10 or 20 others who had gathered to gape at the thing. All of a sudden we all started checking each others faces for some silly reason--for assurance of reality, perhaps, for as we watched there appeared at the lower end of the object a swarm of black specks cavorting every which way, much like a swarm of gnats. This procedure continued for a minute or so before they (the black specks) disappeared.

Then the object, which had hung motionless on the same spot, slowly changed attitude from an upright position to a 45 degree angle with the horizontal and started moving slowly toward the west. At the same time there was no drastic change in the coloring, but a perceptible color change did take place. It remained a dull orange-red color and continued its westerly movement.

We watched in awe for several minutes--perhaps 5-- and then the object changed attitude, again very gradually, until its longitudinal axis appeared parallel to the horizon. The westward movement continued, slightly to the southwest. The apparent size of the object diminished gradually and the color faded. About 5 minutes before we lost it completely (as it faded into the haze just above the horizon) the object changed attitude again, back toward the 45 degree position, but not quite.

As it continued on its westerly path, it maintained this last attitude until completely swallowed up by the haze. It never did drop below the horizon--just faded away. The fading, of course, was due to the many miles of hazy atmosphere between us and the object. The sky was cloudless, but the western horizon did have a slight haze, readily apparent against the bright background.

About 10 minutes after I sighted the object, a full colonel set up a tripod and 35 mm camera with color film and took several photographs of the object. He later denied getting any successful exposures after I asked him on several occasions.

Immediately after the object faded away, we asked one another what it was we saw. The popular answer was, "I don't know, but I saw something."

The crowd was composed of airmen, officers and civilians (at least 25 officers and airmen were present). Several of the officers (and possibly a few civilians) were from the Air Force
Ballistic Missile Division in Los Angeles. Several more, like myself, were Operations personnel engaged in a SAC planning session at the time. All except a few of the airmen were seasoned, veteran flyers or highly trained missile engineers. We concluded that what was seen by all was no conventional vehicle, nor was it an atmospheric phenomenon.

I collected a few names of individuals present, as I intended to report the UFO to the proper authorities. I called the filter center and reported the facts over the telephone in the presence of a fellow officer and co-worker. I was told that I would be contacted for interview within 48 hours by ATIC [Air Technical Intelligence Center representatives. I am still waiting--5-l/2 years later.

UFO SIGHTING REPORT - 2003

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE
BELLVUE
NEBRASKA

Name: S. Lowe

Location: West side of Offutt Air Force Base Nebraska. Offutt AFB is located at Bellevue Neb. Omaha Nebraska and Council Bluffs are to the north.

Date: Wednesday afternoon

July 2003 On or about 3:30pm.

Very clear/sunny weather. A few scattered clouds.

Approach Direction: south

Departure Direction: possibly north

Witness Direction: west

Description: I was photographing RC-135's from the 55th wing at Offutt AFB Nebraska. I was on the west end of the base and photographed a RC-135 "cobra ball" departing off the west end of the runway. After I developed the negatives, I found in two photos possible UFO's in the same frame as the RC-135!!

Color/Shape: Small objects. Possible UFO's have light color upper section and dark color lower section.

Height & Speed: In the photos, the RC-135 "cobra ball" is possibly 1,000+ ft in altitude. The possible UFO's are quite closer. Possibly tree top level, angling across the photograph.

Lincoln, Nebraska An Orange Plasma Type UFO

Date: July 4, 2008
Time: 11:30 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Lincoln, Nebraska.
Number of witnesses: 8
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Orb.

Full Description of event/sighting: My family and I were in the back yard lighting fireworks when one of my oldest sons friends yelled out "Orb!" We all looked up at the same time. The Orb was an orange plasma type of object that flew over us seemed like it was right over the tree tops. It flew from the southeast heading northwest. It changed direction once it passed over our house and headed more north according to my wife. We all had camera phones but no one caught a picture of the object because we were to busy staring with our mouths open. After it was gone I asked everyone there if they seen the same thing. everyone outside had seen it and said they would back me if I ever needed it. I reported this to MUFON only after there was another report that same night from someone in Nebraska City who said they seen an orange colored orb moving towards the Northwest. They reported it at about 9:30pm. After this was over my wife and I and our 11 year old seemed drained of energy for a couple of weeks.

UFOINFO Sighting Form Report

Location: Omaha, Nebraska. USA

Date: October 29th 2008

Time: Around 4:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of objects: 1

Shape of objects: Oval/Football shaped

Weather Conditions: Mostly clear with very few clouds in the sky, sunny.

Description: I was driving my car on the way to the store with my mother in the passenger seat. I came to a stop at a red light, and began talking to my mother about this and that. She was stating what a nice day it was for this time a year.. Being an amateur astronomer I looked up and commented that I hope it would be this clear later that night so I could use my new telescope.

As I was looking up in the sky waiting for the red light to change, something odd caught my eye in the South Western part of the sky. At first glance I thought the usual; possibly a plane or helicopter.. but as I stared more deeply and started to concentrate on what I was looking at, it couldn't have been. It was just hovering there and didn't seem to be moving at a constant rate of speed. It seemed very high up to be a normally manned aircraft anyways. With it being a clear day I could tell it wasn't a normality because there was no jet stream trail, no movement in any particular direction.

As I was studying it I noticed an abnormal reflection coming from it. It was almost as if it was a chrome slightly translucent object. I have never looked up and seen a plane or helicopter cast a chrome luminous reflection that almost hurt to look at because it was highly reflective. I was tapping my mother on the arm telling her to look at this thing, and she kinda glanced up and said, "oh that's just a plane." I said yeah, but it's hovering side to side and is showing a chrome type of surface that is reflecting way too much to be a plane. Plus look how high it is, thats got to be 50,000 feet at least.

The object appeared small but from the height it had to be stationed at.. It must have been relatively large. The light finally turned green after a few minutes of me looking at this thing and I kept watching it as I continued West in my car. As a few miles went by, nothing had changed it wasn't traveling in a certain direction. SO at this point I had the possibility of either a weather balloon or UFO in my mind. A few miles later I stopped at another red light and saw the object again and when i was watching it, it gave off an overcasting reflection that was very noticeable and then it literally vanished. I can't even explain it totally I have never seen anything like this, nor have I seen such a disappearing act performed on something in the sky.

After explaining to my mother, that it had not jet trail, no particular movement, and was chrome in color and oval in shape.. She got really quiet and didn't argue that I am ruling out a manned aircraft.. She is sceptical on things but in this case she did admit that it was really weird and she didn't know what it was. I have always believed in this stuff, but when you see something for the first time ever, it really makes you think. What I saw was Unidentifiable.